Le Monde

The meeting of Robert Schumann and Tristan Murail really results from the desire of the artist. Never, by his own admission, had the latter thought of such a coming together before Marie Ythier proposed it to him. And the young cellist, as inspired in her playing as in her program, was right. Less in the alternating performance of the works of the romantic German and his distant French colleague, born in 1947, than in the association of the two musicians at the heart of the same score. The remodeling by Tristan Murail (for cello, flute and piano) of Schumann’s famous collection of Scenes of Children, ideally maintains the Schumannian fantasy between dream and reality.

(translated by Stephen Sutton from French)

—Pierre Gervasoni